Nintendo console

Nintendo console,Nintendo console: screen shot of Nintendo’s “Donkey Kong”Sinibomb Images/Alamygroundbreaking eight-bit video game console created by Japanese designer Uemura Masayuki. The Nintendo console, or Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), was released as the Famicom in Japan on July 15, 1983. The Famicom offered the ability to play popular arcade games such as Donkey Kong on a home television set and was extremely well received. The console’s success in Japan triggered American interest, and negotiations began in order to bring the NES to the United States. After a 1985 showing at the Consumer Electronics Show and a limited release, the NES stormed America in February 1986, with titles such as ... (100 of 341 words)